We see an Albertan teacher herding students off to the polls — under the pretense that they are teaching civic duty? [I wonder if those kids learned any arithmetic: each of their votes makes a 0.000001% difference in the final result. In a practical sense, that means ZERO difference.]

We have Albertans condemning students who run for civic office.

What do you guys want??

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At least there is one person who is leering of a red tory infection amongst all of this hullabaloo.

Why is it that we decry low voter turnout? Anyone who doesn’t have the time/inclination to vote, and chooses to waive their right to participate in an election, is entirely within their rights to do so.

Honestly, people who vote without taking any time or effort to learn about the issues involved concern me more. An uninformed vote is more damaging than an abstention in my opinion.

Give them a little more time to organize, and perhaps throw in a couple more left-wing moves out of Ottawa (especially if by some miracle, Bob Rae or Stephane Dion manage to get themselves into 24 Sussex) and we will see real, substantive change in Alberta. No other party really gives Albertans a coherent vision of anything different (that doesn’t collapse the province’s economy).

Any way you cut it, Alberta is practically a single-party democracy.

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Recently, a friend of mine said that not all communist party members are bad. Some of them join the party because it is the only way in which they can make positive changes in a single-party regime.

If that was the case with 52% of the 41% of the voters, the PCs would only have 21% popular support.

The 60% that stayed home were probably comprised mostly of conservative minded people who found nothing compelling to vote for in any of the parties. Anyone who was Liberal or NDP most certainly went out and voted.

So Stelmach and the PCs need to ask themselves, “how do we win back our traditional support so that if a compelling party or party leader faces us in the next election we don’t lose?”

The raw numbers in the electorate are an important consideration. However, the results still speak for themselves. Why were NDP and Liberal voters staying away in droves when the media were all presenting this as “their opportunity” for change?

the most uniform PC support across the province that I have ever seen.

I do not think it is prudent to draw that conclusion.

You ask “What election?” and I ask: What electorate?

What I find highly interesting is that voter turnout in Alberta followed the previous trend: it is dropping.